CN103518033B - Downhole tool - Google Patents

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CN103518033B
CN103518033B CN201280021005.1A CN201280021005A CN103518033B CN 103518033 B CN103518033 B CN 103518033B CN 201280021005 A CN201280021005 A CN 201280021005A CN 103518033 B CN103518033 B CN 103518033B
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    • E21BEARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B47/00Survey of boreholes or wells
    • E21B47/01Devices for supporting measuring instruments on drill bits, pipes, rods or wirelines; Protecting measuring instruments in boreholes against heat, shock, pressure or the like
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Abstract

The present invention relates to a kind of downhole tool, including tool housing and the electronic building brick with the electronic module being positioned in housing, wherein electronic building brick also includes electrically connecting with electronic module and being arranged on the multiple transistor units on hot component hot linked with housing, wherein electronic module and hot component heat insulation.Additionally, the present invention relates to include hawser, tool tubular column and the downhole system of the downhole tool according to the present invention.

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Downhole tool
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of downhole tool including electronic building brick, described electronic building brick includes for well The transistor unit of lower instrument.
Background technology
The down-hole electronics being used in the control system for producing hydrocarbon fluid in producing well Equipment includes electronic power supply and the parts in use producing big calorimetric, such as transistor.Current to carbon The control of the downhole tool in hydrogen compound well and the requirement more accurately of monitoring have resulted in and need electric power That asks dramatically increases, and this generates and must go to heat extraction amount with the problem maintaining reasonable operating temperatures.Heat Removal depend on heat to the transmission of housing, but due to the temperature raised when underground work, instrument Electronic unit generally with housing heat insulation, to protect electronic unit from the impact of the temperature of rising. Therefore, heat generating component (such as transistor) is possible overheated or causes other parts overheated.Additionally, Transistor can suffer from so-called thermal runaway/thermal breakdown, and thermal runaway refers to that transistor starts heating and (rises Temperature), thus distribute increasing heat because temperature raises, and then make problem upgrade, this enters one Step adds other electronic unit of protection transistor and adjacent transistors element makes it not rise high-temperature Demand.
Summary of the invention
It is an object of the invention to completely or partially to overcome the disadvantages mentioned above of state of the art and not Foot.More specific, it is an object to provide the electronic building brick improved, this electronic building brick has Subsurface environment operates at elevated ambient temperatures and does not use active cooling (such as liquid cooling) Ability, active cooling represent for underground equipment a series of other and generally the severeest skill Art problem.
The above-mentioned purpose that will become apparent from the description below and other purposes several, advantage and spy Property together, is realized by the scheme utilizing downhole tool according to the present invention, and wherein downhole tool includes:
-tool housing, and
-electronic building brick, including:
-the electronic module that is positioned in housing,
Wherein electronic building brick also includes electrically connecting and be arranged on heat hot linked with housing with electronic module Multiple transistor units on component, wherein electronic module and hot component heat insulation.
Additionally, the present invention relates to a kind of downhole tool, including:
-tool housing, and
-electronic building brick, including:
-the electronic module that is positioned in housing,
Wherein electronic building brick also includes electrically connecting with electronic module and be arranged on and is directly connected to housing Multiple transistor units on hot component.
In one embodiment, described hot component can be the solid projections of housing.
Additionally, electronic module can be with hot component heat insulation.
It addition, electronic module can be connected to housing, transistor can be connected to hot component.
In another embodiment, housing could be for the heat sink of the plurality of transistor unit (heat sink, heat sink).
In another embodiment, the kit including the downhole tool of electronic building brick could be for institute State the heat sink of multiple transistor unit.
Additionally, hot component can also include the room accommodating heat absorption material, this heat absorption material has There is the critical fusing point puncturing temperature less than the plurality of transistor unit, for inhaling for higher than heat The temperature of the fusing point receiving material provides extra latent heat of fusion automatic anti-fault protection.
Additionally, the plurality of transistor unit can by multiple insulating components with described hot component electricity absolutely Edge but thermally coupled.
It addition, hot component can include accommodating active cooling element (such as vapor compression refrigeration element, Magnetic cooling element, evaporation cooling element or thermoelectric cooling element) room.
A kind of downhole tool with electronic building brick according to the present invention, it is also possible to include one or more For the operating unit of logging instrument, such as thermal probe, image generation unit, measuring unit (such as flow velocity Measuring unit), positioning unit (such as casing collar locator (CCL)) or similar operating unit.
It addition, can also include that pump or cleaning are single according to the downhole tool with electronic building brick of the present invention Unit.
The invention still further relates to downhole system, including:
-hawser (wireline, wirerope, logging cable),
-tool tubular column, and
-according to the downhole tool of the present invention.
Accompanying drawing explanation
It is more fully described the present invention and multiple advantage thereof below with reference to the accompanying drawings, illustrates for example purpose Some non-limiting embodiments, wherein
Fig. 1 shows the profile of electronic building brick,
Fig. 2 is the perspective view of hot component and electronic module,
Fig. 3 is the perspective view of electronic module, and some part is illustrated significantly for the purpose of illustration,
Fig. 4 is the schematic diagram of tool tubular column, and
Fig. 5 is the profile of electronic building brick.
All accompanying drawing is high-level schematic and is not necessarily drawn to, and they illustrate only as this is described Bright those required parts, other parts are omitted or are only implied.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 shows the electronic building brick 1 being used in downhole tool 100.The tool housing 2 of hollow wraps Include electronic module 3 and multiple transistor unit 4.Transistor unit 4 be arranged on hot component 5 for The heat produced by transistor unit 4 is directly distributed to tool housing 2 and/or distributes further to bag Include the kit 6 of the downhole tool 100 of electronic building brick 1.In certain embodiments, electronic module 3 Being arranged on hot component 5, as it is shown in figure 1, in other embodiments, described electronic module is arranged on It is on the hot component 5 of a part of tool housing 2, as shown in Figure 5.Electronic module 3 can pass through The erecting device (assembling device, supporting arrangement) 8 with specific thermal conductivity is installed, described particular thermal Conductance is designed to meet the specific heat request of the particular electronic component 9 being included in electronic module 3. If in order to be dispersed and high to the requirement of thermal conductivity from electronic module 3 by heat, then selecting high heat conductance Material for erecting device 8.On the other hand, if the requirement to thermal conductivity is low, then can select Heat insulator.Generally, the main heat during transistor unit is electronic building brick produces electronic unit. But, other heat produces electronic unit can also be thermally isolated and be arranged on institute with described electronic module State and electrically connect with described electronic module on hot component.
Fig. 2 shows the closely enlarged perspective of hot component 5.As it can be seen, hot component 5 is permissible Having the end member 5a of circle, to adapt to be arranged in the downhole tool 100 of cylindricality, cylindricality is to use Most typical shape in downhole tool.
Fig. 3 shows the perspective view of electronic building brick 1.The most all downhole tool 100 is fitted into post In shape housing so as in the wellbore underground work time the specific space requirement of optimization.In order to make heat from Hot component 5 distributes optimization, and described hot component can include the end structure with good thermal conductivity performance Part 5a so that with tool housing 2(as shown in Figure 3) when directly contacting, heat effectively dissipates To shown in described tool housing and/or kit 6(Fig. 1 and 4).Additionally, end member 5a The attachment arrangement 11(such as spiral shell for being fixed in tool housing 2 by electronic building brick 1 can be included Stricture of vagina).
Fig. 4 shows by tool tubular column 12, hawser 13, multiple kit 6 and includes electronic building brick The downhole system 200 of downhole tool 100 composition of 1.Tool tubular column 12 can pass through downhole tractor Drive part 14 be pushed in pit shaft 15 and pass through hawser 13 and be pulled.
Owing to flowing through the electric current of transistor, produce used heat in the transistor.If transistor is overheated, then Transistor needs cooled, or may be damaged by heat in the worst case.Hot component 5 passes through will Heat is communicated off transistor unit 4 and helps heat radiation.
The use of hot component 5 makes downhole tool can enter to have and be not disposed on than transistor and housing The well of the ambient temperature of high 25 degree (the highest 50 degree) time directly on the hot component 5 of contact Or pit shaft 15.When operation in subsurface environment, make the electronic building brick including that there is transistor unit 4 Tool tubular column 12 can to operate at elevated temperatures be important.In the earth's crust, (such as magma is attached Local temperature change closely), may cause the breaking-up of electronic component (such as transistor).Therefore, The resistant to elevated temperatures ability strengthened is the most valuable in downhole operations.Additionally, underground equipment has Common problem be that the closely and closely surrounding objects due to space requirement, these all can Cause being difficult in operation disperse heat.
Hot grease can be utilized to obtain good thermal conductivity between transistor unit 4 and hot component 5. Except hot grease or replacement hot grease ground, transistor can be clamping again towards the surface of hot component 5 To guarantee good thermo-contact and thereby, it is ensured that good thermal conductivity.
Hot component 5 can be advantageously made up of the material (such as metal, such as aluminum) of high heat conductance. But, also it is electric conductor due to metal, if so transistor directly contacts with hot component, then crystal Pipe may make line short through hot component 5, causes transistor damage.Therefore, transistor unit 4 He Hot component 5 is typically by insulating component 7(as shown in Figure 1) separate, this insulating component must be phase The electric conductor the most excessively poor to good heat conductor, such as aluminium oxide.
As it is shown in figure 1, hot component 5 can include the room 10 accommodating heat absorption material, this heat is inhaled Receive material and there is the critical fusing point puncturing temperature less than multiple transistors, for for higher than described heat The temperature of the fusing point of amount absorbing material provides extra latent heat of fusion automatic anti-fault protection.There is receiving The room 10 of heat absorption material ensure that when the temperature of hot component 5 exceedes the fusing of this heat absorption material During temperature, this heat absorption material by this extra heat with the latent heat of fusion or so-called melting capacity Form absorbs, in order to by melt material without rising high-temperature further, be thus provided that hot component The temperature limiting of 5, until described heat absorption material is completely melt.Transistor unit 4 and electronic die Block 3 is electrically connected by electric wire 16.
Alternatively, room 10 can accommodate active cooling element (active cooling element). Active cooling element can be by known cooling system (such as vapour compression refrigeration, magnetic cooling, steaming Feel cold but, thermoelectric-cooled or other cooling technology) provide.The passive type cooling being positioned in described room is first Part (passive cooling element) and the combination of active cooling element can be used for preventing electricity The temperature of the electronic component in sub-component exceedes critical temperature.
By providing passive type to cool down or active cooling in hot component, it can be ensured that described electronics group Automatic anti-fault operation (fail safe operation) of part.It addition, be used in described electronic building brick Electronic unit due to the temperature that raises, the loss that causes is eliminated.
Depend on various parameter (such as available power, free space, required cooling capacity etc.), special Fixed active cooling element is likely to be of advantage, if such as thermoelectric-cooled space is very limited And if electric power can be used, this is common situation in underground equipment.
As it is shown in figure 5, hot component 5 is the solid projections 41 of tool housing 2.Fig. 5 shows attachment To the hot component 5 of described housing, but the most described hot component can be the indivisible of described housing A part, this can improve conduction of heat but really challenge the structure of described housing.
Fig. 5 is it also shows that electronic module 3 is attached to tool housing 2 and transistor unit 4 is attached to heat Component 5, thus enhance the pyrolysis coupling (heat decoupling) of electronic module 3 and transistor unit.
Fig. 2 shows the closely enlarged perspective of hot component 5.As it can be seen, hot component 5 is permissible There is the end member 5a of circle to adapt to be arranged on cylindricality (for the most typically shape of downhole tool) In downhole tool.
Hot component 5 can be made by high thermal conductivity material (the most preferably metal, the most preferably aluminum) Become.
Hot component 5 also serves as heat sink/heat sink, to absorb superfluous heat, is not only and is passed by heat Pass and leave transistor unit 4.Housing uses as heat sink, in this heat sink and pit shaft 15 or Around in sleeve pipe under cased hole completion situation, well fluids interacts.
Transistor unit 4 needs heat stability, because the operating point of transistor junction (similar diode) Temperature influence.If it is true that be designed without considering for this, this may cause thermal runaway and equipment Damage.
In this application, being directly connected to be considered as the connection between solid component.Even if two realities Connection between heart component can be reinforced by liquid heat oils and fats etc., but this connection is still considered as It is directly connected to.
Although the present invention has been described above about described in the preferred embodiments of the present invention, to this area skill Art personnel it is clear that can realize multiple amendment wants without deviating from the present invention, such as appended right Ask restriction.

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1. a downhole tool (100), including:
-tool housing (2), and
-electronic building brick (1), including:
-the electronic module (3) that is positioned in described tool housing,
Wherein, described electronic building brick also includes electrically connecting and being arranged on described electronic module with described Multiple transistor units (4) on the hot linked hot component of tool housing (5), wherein, described electricity Submodule and described hot component heat insulation.
Downhole tool the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that described hot component is described The solid projections (41) of tool housing.
Downhole tool the most according to claim 2, it is characterised in that described electronic module connects To described tool housing, the plurality of transistor unit is connected to described hot component.
Downhole tool the most according to any one of claim 1 to 3, it is characterised in that described Tool housing is the heat sink for the plurality of transistor unit.
Downhole tool the most according to any one of claim 1 to 3, it is characterised in that include The kit (6) of the downhole tool of described electronic building brick is the suction for the plurality of transistor unit Thermal part.
Downhole tool the most according to any one of claim 1 to 3, it is characterised in that described Hot component also includes the room (10) accommodating heat absorption material, and described heat absorption material has and is less than The critical fusing point puncturing temperature of the plurality of transistor unit, for for higher than described heat absorption The temperature of the fusing point of material provides extra latent heat of fusion automatic anti-fault protection.
Downhole tool the most according to any one of claim 1 to 3, it is characterised in that described Hot component also includes the room (10) accommodating active cooling element.
Downhole tool the most according to any one of claim 1 to 3, it is characterised in that described Multiple transistor units are by multiple insulating components (7) and described hot component electric insulation but thermally coupled.
Downhole tool the most according to any one of claim 1 to 3, also includes one or more Operating unit (40), the one or more operating unit is logging instrument, image generation unit, survey Amount unit or positioning unit.
Downhole tool the most according to any one of claim 1 to 3, also includes pump or cleaning Unit.
11. downhole tools according to claim 7, it is characterised in that this active cooling unit Part is vapor compression refrigeration element, magnetic cooling element, evaporation cooling element or thermoelectric cooling element.
12. downhole tools according to claim 9, it is characterised in that described logging instrument is for visiting Pin.
13. downhole tools according to claim 9, it is characterised in that described measuring unit is Flow-speed measurement unit.
14. downhole tools according to claim 9, it is characterised in that described positioning unit is Casing collar locator (CCL).
15. 1 kinds of downhole systems (200), including:
-hawser (13),
-tool tubular column (12), and
-according to the downhole tool (100) according to any one of claim 1 to 14.
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